According to the Honolulu Advertiser the restaurant will be called Jimmy Buffett’s At The Beachcomber
Expect occasional appearances by singer/author Jimmy Buffett at a new Waikiki restaurant that will bear his name and is expected to open later this year on Kalakaua Avenue in the Ohana Waikiki Beachcomber. It will be known as Jimmy Buffett’s At The Beachcomber and will occupy a prominent location on Kalakaua Avenue above Macy’s on the hotel’s lobby level.
"They are designing this restaurant for Hawaii; it’s really customized," she said. She said the deal is part of a $21 million renovation of the Ohana Waikiki Beachcomber.
She said the $15 million restaurant project will take up more than 21,000 square feet in an area that fronts Kalakaua and was home to the late Don Ho in his last years, to the Blue Hawai’i showroom and to the Hibiscus Cafe restaurant.
She said Outrigger had been in discussions with the entrepreneurial singer for two years. "Jimmy absolutely loves Hawai’i and had been looking at locations for five years," she said.
In a written statement about the project, Buffett said: "From the first time I rode a wave at Canoes on Waikiki I began to figure out how I could get back to Hawaii on a more regular basis to that One Particular Harbour. I have written many stories and songs inspired by my time in Hawaii and can’t wait to see what the future holds in the land that is so far but yet so near."